Admission Control for URLLC Users in 5G Networks

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) are one of the service types supported by 5G. These are characterized by a high reliability of delivering packets within a short deadline. To fulfill these stringent requirements, a special care must be taken to determine the required data rate of a user, given its traffic intensity and channel conditions. Furthermore, with the network resources being limited and the competition between the users in the cell, an important question that arises is that of admission control, so that the admitted users do not experience performance deterioration. In this paper, we provide the analysis that leads to an admission control policy. We do this for two types of users in terms of their traffic intensities and channel conditions: 1) homogeneous users, and 2) heterogeneous users. We validate our results on a trace. Results show that the number of admitted users depends on the traffic intensity and the worst channel conditions. An increase in traffic intensity by 3 times can decrease the number of admitted users by almost 35%.